By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Richard Cherry sees opportunities where others see smokestacks and landfills. In 1994, after two decades with the New York Urban Coalition, Cherry founded the Community Environmental Center to help low-income New Yorkers save money on utility bills by adding...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Five years ago, Marian Kramer – a long-time advocate for social justice and co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union – discovered that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department had shut off running water to more than 40,000 Detroit-area residents who...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After decades heading up a health clinic in Altgeld Gardens, an impoverished community of 3,500 in Chicago, Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon decided that the children she saw as patients needed much more than traditional health care to succeed in life. So in 2004, at age 67,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At the age of 45, Phil Borges left a successful orthodontic practice and declared himself a full-time photographer. At 58 and at the peak of international acclaim, Borges turned his talent to a more purposeful passion — expanding children’s worldview and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
What can health care learn from politics? Inspired by his son’s work on a political campaign, Dr. Donald Berwick, a pediatrician with a master’s degree in public policy, decided to find out. In 2004, at the age of 57, Berwick – and his organization,...
